Mini SD Modeling Contest (Scary Monsters) - VOTING POLL

[MasterHaosis]

Contestants were tasked to create a monster from media i.e. any monster from movies, series, books, games etc.

• Trying to manipulate the poll in any form is not allowed.
  If you're aware of ip-sharing with any voter, for any reason, you should contact the staff.
• Harassment towards others to influence the result will lead to punishment.
  A neutral recommendation to take part at the poll isn't problematic, though.
• Voting for yourself is not allowed, and will lead to a malus by 5%.
• Participating in the poll does not explicitly safe one from being disqualified.
• Judges are not allowed to vote.

You are very welcome to make a short statement what you like the most, so contestants get a bit of public feedback!

• 1st Place: 40$
• 2nd Place: 25$
• 3rd Place: 10$

Reward icons for 1. 2. and 3. place as well. Also, there will be experience points for all contestants! The only rule for this is that your work must be approveable to prevent substandard models getting experience.
I donated much more money meanwhile for the site itself regarding this contest (140 dollars). The goal is next: winners get prize, the site also receives some money for the running costs and so on, plus we bring some quality models here, plus some activity and views!

Judge's Pick award: 20$
During the voting process, Panda will judge models himself independently from the public vote and pick his choice according to setup criteria. His choice can be anyone of contestants (whose work is approved) despite of place by votes. Technically anyone who won 1. or 2. or 3. place can be his choice (meaning he will get two awards and money), but also someone who did not win can be picked. Panda will also receive 20$.
Contestants are competing both for judge's and public opinions.

The three winners will receive an award icon representing the winning entry.

• @Panda

CONTESTANT	WIP PREVIEW	FINAL ENTRY
@Stefan.K	WIP	FINAL ENTRY
@Villagerino	WIP	FINAL ENTRY
@Hotel	WIP	FINAL ENTRY
@tillinghast	WIP	FINAL ENTRY
@johnwar	WIP	FINAL ENTRY
@BoatyMcBoatface300	WIP	FINAL ENTRY

For this contest there will be popular vote plus, separately, judge's review. For limited time people will have to vote for winner, then independently judge will pick his choice according to setup criteria.

The poll shall begin on 7. January 2026 and will be closed after 24 days, that should be on 31. January.

 

[MyPad]

It's quite tough to choose a winner for this contest with the amount of entries here. Everyone did great in making their models.

If I would choose two winners, I'd go with Pennywise, the hunter of children, and Hanzo, the buff stealer.

 

[Villagerino]

@MasterHaosis, @Footman16 made it roll

 

[MasterHaosis]

It is now in Arena that is awesome, but there should be thread in Site News! Not many people watch arena, but all watch Site News, and since it was not created to promote poll, as this is not my personal poll it was something to benefit site itself and people there. But many more people should see this thats why it must be promoted. Then I opened thread in Site Discussion to promote it further because many more people watches site discussion and i got thread removed! And someone wrote me to mention Archian to create Site News. FOR DAMN SAKE to contact the same Archian who is super inactive last period until poll gets closed, what a great idea!

 

[Footman16]

I've put the notice up in the scrolling notices at the top and posted an announcement in the discord server.

EDIT: I've also now advertised it in the Latest News and Updates.

 

[khopesh]

Depending on the context, all models have their application, Good jobs

 

[A]mun]

Incredible quality on all models really!

 

[Panda]

My 20$ will be spent on some brews after the contest concludes

 

[Ustanak]

My 20$ will be spent on some brews after the contest concludes

Name your poison

 

[MasterHaosis]

69 votes so far! Thats good! Since this went in Site News and Discord we are doing great.

 

[MickCraft]

Wow, these are all incredible! I voted, but please know it was hard to pick just one. Best of luck to all of you!

 

[All_Time_Pro]

@Villagerino @Stefan.K @Hotel @tillinghast @johnwar @BoatyMcBoatface300 I would be happy if anyone of you won, looking at each of your models I am very impressed with the work that was put into your models.

Pennywise does seem to me to be the most polished so thats where I cast my vote, but the rest of your models are amazing.

Also thank you @MasterHaosis for hosting this event as well

 

[Chaosy]

BoatyMcBoatface300 is very creative but the maps where it can be used are so rare. Johnwar's seems very wc3 to me, I can see it easily being used in many projects so that's my vote.

 

[Kyrbi0]

Villagerino is knocking out of the park once again; just the whole package (model, texture, animations, and all with a level of polish that we've come to expect from our man). Really went above & beyond, and even though it's totally impossible to squeeze into Warcraft-lore-centered projects like my own, it's clearly the appropriate victor for a Modeling Contest.

That being said the rest of the entries really do put up a decent fight. Boaty's Calamity thing is quite complex & a fun homage; so is Stefan.K's (what a unique dude), and Johnwar's is too (I love his Stand pose, very cool). Tillinghast did his usual (quirky but bespoke, perhaps the cleanest entry aside from Villagerino's, perfectly apropos).

The one who I think gave Villagerino a run for his money is Hotel; I'm a little biased because I recently learned about Trench Crusade & the Chorister stuck out to me personally, but this model just really has it all. Perfect Wc3 recreation of the concept art, with great attention to detail. Very kooky concept to translate into this medium. Really love the Channeling animation; the having the Portrait focus on the dislodged head?? Brilliant.

 

[Xelos]

indeed it was nice contest, contestants shows uss almost they best skills, my vote was close beetweens cultist and keeper, i liked them the most,

 

[Archian]

Good luck in the contest people!

Lovely entries all around. Hard to choose!

 

[kadakash1]

Villagerino to the other contestants:

 

[MasterHaosis]

106 votes that fantastic!
@Footman16 thank you again for jumping in to move thread to site news so enough people can see and vote in time.

 

[Panda]

Congrats to the winners and the ones who didn't qualify.. do-not worry. Your works are fantastic and keep up the good work in the future since im sure there will be more contests awaiting!